Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noyes, who as an undergraduate was "Ibis" of the Lampoon and an editor of the CRIMSON, spent the last two years in Iran as architect to the Persepolis expedition of the Oriental Institute...
...York Poultry Show in Manhattan last week were a 42-Ib. turkey, a "talking goose'' which performed on the NBC Children's Hour. Jimmy Walker paid $500 for a pair of Blue Azore chickens to take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...
...taxes on it. He now proposed that the Government or the Smithsonian Institution take over the collection as a "nucleus" for an institution to be called "The National Art Gallery." He proposed the erection of a gallery on Washington's Mall, on plans for which he had set Architect John Russell Pope working a year ago. For constructing the gallery, Mr. Mellon offered the sum of $9,000,000, promised an endowment fund for maintaining a staff and providing for new acquisitions. Congress would have to appropriate funds for the building's upkeep, he said...
...North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high as a four-story building, and so perfectly balanced that it needs no unusual armature. Sculptor Lawrie needed little help from professional astronomers to get his globe correct. His assistant was his Son Milton, a registered architect and passionate amateur astronomer...
Died. George William Kelham, 65, San Francisco architect; of heart disease; in San Francisco. Designer of San Francisco's Public Library, Federal Reserve Bank, Palace Hotel. Standard Oil and Shell Oil Buildings, he served as chief architect for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, headed the architectural commission of the 1939 San Francisco Bay Exposition...